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iKanji 1.0 is here!

Thursday, July 24, 2008

It's taken a little while to get there, but iKanji is finally available for everyone to download and enjoy. Many thanks to all who helped with the beta testing over the last few days. I've been overwhelmed by the amount of interest and support I've received from the community. I hope iKanji will make a lot of people's lives a bit simpler when it comes to studying kanji.

Yes iKana and iKanji will be coming to the iPhone/iPod touch!

I've said this before but I'm getting asked this question so frequently now I want it on the record again, I do plan to port both apps to the iPhone OS. In fact I already have an alpha of iKana touch up and running on my development Touch. iKana Touch will come first as it's a nice relatively simple starting point and the data set is fairly limited and easy to deal with. I'm hoping it will be ready by the end of August, but then again I'm pretty lousy at hitting deadlines as long time followers of this blog will realise ;) Someone asked me if I'll do a similar bundle as with iKana and iKanji on the Mac or a bundle that includes both Mac and iPhone versions. The simple answer is no, I'm not able to offer a bundle of these due to the limitations imposed by Apple's App Store. Each application has to be sold separately.

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8 Comments:

At 12:36 AM, Anonymous Anonymous said...

GREAT !

I am waiting for IKanji to buy my IPod Touch :-)

Just by looking how it looks like it makes impatient to study with it in the train :-)

Congratulations for your apps, you did a great job.

Good luck

Seb

 
At 7:25 PM, Anonymous Anonymous said...

Very cool app! I m going buy it, but shoud i wait for russian-japanese ikanji jisho? Is it impossible? Thanx!

 
At 7:35 PM, Blogger Rory Prior said...

iKanji isn't a dictionary. You can freely edit the flash cards if you want to add Russian meanings instead of English. It's highly unlikely a Russian specific localisation will be released in the foreseeable future because the market is too small.

 
At 4:51 AM, Blogger Voltron said...

I understand this will be a lot of work but can you give an estimate when iKanji Touch will be available ? Before the end of this year ?

Thanks

 
At 9:11 AM, Blogger Rory Prior said...

The aim is before the end of the year.

 
At 5:25 AM, Blogger Willy Feng said...

It seems a great app. I'm attracted to this; however, I only have Tiger. Any way to resolve it instead of getting Leopard?

 
At 10:34 AM, Blogger Rory Prior said...

Sorry it uses too many technologies specific to Leopard so I won't be porting it back to Tiger.

 
At 3:07 PM, OpenID brunoweihs@mac.com said...

I like your app very much and look forward to having it on the iphone too. Cheers

 

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